They have lots to be jealous about though, we should all take it as compliments.
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Carrie Underwood, Blown Away (15,000, -49%, 794,000) (#24 Billboard 200)
Carrie Underwood, Some Hearts (2,000, -3%, 7.235 million)
Carrie Underwood, Play On (1,000, -4%, 2.136 million)
Carrie Underwood, Carnival Ride (1,000, +3%, 3.28 million)
Carrie Underwood, Blown Away (67,000, -9%, 804,000)
Carrie Underwood, Good Girl (10,000, +5%, 1.339 million)
Brad Paisley/Carrie Underwood, Remind Me (5,000, -6%, 1.644 million)
Carrie Underwood, Before He Cheats (5,000, +9%, 3.569 million)
Carrie Underwood, How Great Thou Art (2,000, +1%, 362,000)
How the hell is How Great Thou Art still selling? :deadbanaa2:
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On dueting with Carrie Underwood on the new Aerosmith song, "Can't Stop Loving You":
"I sang the song a little country. One of the guys in the band said, 'You need to re-sing it. You're singing it too country. I said, that's how I wrote it! Marty [Frederiksen, co-writer] and I were just talking about it, you know, if it gets on the radio, it sounds like a country song, 'Why not get one of them thar people to sing on it?' [affecting a country accent]. I called Carrie up because she's a friend of mine. She was in L.A., but she was leaving that next morning and I said, 'Ooh, get over here quick!' The rest is history. She sang on it, and it's perfect. It's one of those moments that just is."
On dueting with Carrie Underwood on the new Aerosmith song, "Can't Stop Loving You":
"I sang the song a little country. One of the guys in the band said, 'You need to re-sing it. You're singing it too country. I said, that's how I wrote it! Marty [Frederiksen, co-writer] and I were just talking about it, you know, if it gets on the radio, it sounds like a country song, 'Why not get one of them thar people to sing on it?' [affecting a country accent]. I called Carrie up because she's a friend of mine. She was in L.A., but she was leaving that next morning and I said, 'Ooh, get over here quick!' The rest is history. She sang on it, and it's perfect. It's one of those moments that just is."
With her charitable contributions, sassy female-empowerment anthems and good-girl attitude, Carrie Underwood makes it easy for her fans to look up to her.
On Thursday night she made it even easier.
Midway through her show at a filled Sovereign Center, the country-pop star and three of her bandmates performed six songs while hovering above the crowd on a chunk of stage.
"I see everybody's beautiful bright and shining face in this arena," Underwood said, looking down on a sea of recording smartphones. "It's the only way to travel - right here, a flying stage."
The flying-carpet stage was part of a grab bag of high-tech tricks brought out during the 100-minute show, in support of this year's "Blown Away" album.
The former "American Idol" winner seemed to exit and enter the stage from a different secret compartment every time she changed outfits.
The stage was surrounded by video screens augmenting the music with short films, brightly colored special effects and computer-generated scenes from Small Town USA.
And the eight-piece band performed on moving risers, rarely staying at the same section of the stage for more than one song.
The 29-year-old Oklahoma native, who claimed on Twitter to have a bad case of hiccups right before the show, was in fine vocal form throughout the evening, most notably in the difficult ballad "I Know You Won't."
As expected, much of the 23-song set was culled from "Blown Away," including hits "Good Girl" and the title track, which bookended the evening.
The reggae-tinged country party song "One Way Ticket" included massive beach balls bouncing through the crowd, a confetti bomb, leis and a whistling sun on the video screen.
The set also included crowd favorites "Jesus Take the Wheel," "All-American Girl," "Last Name" and "Before He Cheats," and a straight-ahead cover of Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion."